An analysis of the potential effects of three recent proposals for pricing Federal Reserve daylight overdrafts, demonstrating that reducing the attendant moral hazard in daylight overdraft credit depends on how, rather than on how much, pricing affects overdrafts, and that this should be a...

As the Federal Government moves to switch most federal payments from paper check delivery to Direct Deposit by January 2, 1999, the Electronic Fund Transfer Initiative (EFT) attempts to educate consumers and serve the "unbanked."

The Washington-based Financial Services Education Coalition has prepared a training guide to help service providers and community groups better educate their clients about Direct Deposit and other basic banking topics.

Questions and answers regarding compliance with Regulation E.

Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems such as CHAPS Sterling require large amounts of liquidity to support payment activity. To meet their liquidity needs, RTGS participants borrow from the central bank or rely on incoming payments from other participants. Both options can prove costly --...

Adapted from remarks given before the Seminar on Payment Systems in the European Union in Frankfurt, Germany, on February 27, 1997.

The Federal Reserve's Fedwire funds transfer service - the biggest large-value payments system in the United States - has long displayed a peak of activity in the late afternoon. Theory suggests that the concentration of late-afternoon Fedwire activity reflects coordination among participating...

Globalization and technological innovation are two major forces affecting the financial system and its infrastructure. Perhaps nowhere are these trends more apparent than in the internationalization and automation of payments. While the effects of globalization and technological innovation are...